Believe he had moved with his parents to Backus, Cass County, Minnesota about 1917. On his 1918 WWI draft registration filed in Backus, he was working as a laborer for E E Griffith, he was 5'8" and of medium build. This registration was the first time we find his middle name and the writing is smudged - spelling could be Eugene or Eugean.

Believe Asa may have died serving in the infantry, no record of such found yet.